{"id":5813,"date":"2024-07-23T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2024-07-21T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T10:12:06","slug":"nothing-is-comparable-to-the-joy-your-letters-afford-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5813","title":{"rendered":"NOTHING IS COMPARABLE TO THE JOY YOUR LETTERS AFFORD ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Instead of deterring young Oblates from volunteering for the foreign missions, the narratives of the Oblates, and all their hardships and challenges in making Jesus the Savior known, spurred them on to desire to be courageous missionaries themselves.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><strong>Nothing is comparable to the joy your letters afford me. One quivers on receiving them, reading and rereading them again and again ever with renewed pleasure, then one has them read to others until everyone is ecstatic. For do not believe that the description you make of your weariness and privation frighten those who long for the missions to the indigenous peoples. On the contrary, they are envious of your lot and beg me with even greater insistence that they may go and share it with you. You can be quite certain that I do not think of deterring them from so holy a vocation or of dulling their zeal. Far from that.<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Letter to Fr. Pascal Ricard in Oregon, August 1848, EO I n 100<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>REFLECTION<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>When we listen to our elderly Oblates narrating the adventures of their missionary lives, we are inspired to want to emulate them and apply their spirit to today&#8217;s challenges. When we listen to our elderly Christians narrating the story of their lives as followers of Jesus, we are inspired to want to live by the same spirit today. How blest we are to have our elders!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of deterring young Oblates from volunteering for the foreign missions, the narratives of the Oblates, and all their hardships and challenges in making Jesus the Savior known, spurred them on to desire to be courageous missionaries themselves. Nothing is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=5813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}